Peter, there should be no need for libpeas to have explicit support for Vala. The magical thing about Vala is that the Vala compiler generates GObject-based C code, which can be used just about anywhere that C code normally works.
adam On 08/27/2010 12:06 AM, Peter DO Smith wrote: > Thanks Adam, that is good news. Will you wait for Vala support in Libpeas? > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:22 PM, Adam Dingle<[email protected]> wrote: > > >> (Replying to the mailing list.) >> >> >> On 08/26/2010 01:01 PM, Peter DO Smith wrote: >> >> >>> Would not the planned plugin architecture be a good place to implement >>> things like this? >>> Then we could write plugins to do our favourite transformations. >>> >>> >>> >> Yes, as long as we provide hooks which allow plugins to transform photos at >> import time. That would seem like a nice capability to offer. >> >> >> How far off is the implementation of a plugin architecture? I accept this >> >>> is >>> a far from trivial task. >>> >>> >> This is honestly probably still a couple of releases away since we're still >> missing a number of other basic features, and since many of Shotwell's >> internal APIs (which will be exposed to plugins) are still in flux as >> Shotwell matures. >> >> >> What language tools would the plugin architecture >> >>> support? My vote would be for Python. >>> >>> >>> >> I think we should build our plugin system using libpeas ( >> http://live.gnome.org/Libpeas). Then plugin authors will be able to use >> C, Python or JavaScript as they please. >> >> adam >> >> >> Gilles, >> >>>> On 08/25/2010 11:25 PM, Gilles wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hello All >>>>> >>>>> I have recently discovered shotwell and seem to answer to my quest of >>>>> good photo manager. >>>>> >>>>> A little suggestion, is there a way to normalise name of pictures during >>>>> the import ? for example, i alway rename my picture in lower cases, is >>>>> it an option to do this ? if no, perhaps a new impovement ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> I agree this would be a nice feature, but we don't have this yet. We >>>> have a ticket for this at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/1942 - that's a >>>> good place for further discussion about this. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance and continue your great job on shotwell. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Thanks - I'm glad you like Shotwell! >>>> >>>> adam >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Shotwell mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
